{"id":9833,"date":"2020-12-14T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2020-12-14T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:05:09","slug":"powerprotect-dd-series-appliances-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/powerprotect-dd-series-appliances-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerProtect DD Series Appliances Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It’s been a busy couple of months with data protection updates in the Dell Technologies family, and that’s continued with the release of updates to the PowerProtect DD Series appliances, and DDOS 7.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s have a look at some of the updates in this latest release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The software<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloud Tier<\/strong> support has been added for a variety of new regions. (Check out the link to the product landing page \u2013 from there you can go to the release notes to see the full region list.)<\/li>
Veritas NetBackup support for Retention Lock<\/strong> with DD Boost 7.4.0.5 and higher. So, if you’re still backing up in the past with NetBackup, you’ll be able to apply some extra protection to it.<\/li>
The REST APIs have been updated with more functions for setup and configuration usage.<\/li>
Security enhancements<\/strong> for certain operations on the filesystem have been enhanced.<\/li>
Whoa! DDVE on Azure<\/strong> can now scale to 256 TB<\/strong> as well. That’s Azure, AWS and GCP now all supporting 256 TB of DDVE. This represents an unparalleled economy of scale for deduplication storage in the public cloud! (Even at just 20:1 deduplication, a 256 TB<\/em> DDVE would hold 5 PB<\/em> of backups!)<\/li>
DDVE on KVM now supports RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and 8.0, and SuSE Linux 12 SP4\/15.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The hardware<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re using a high-availability<\/strong> (HA) system, upgrades have been sped up.<\/li>
Support for 8TB Shelf Migration<\/strong> \u2013 For compatible systems with DDOS 7.4, you’ll be able to perform a shelf-migration from smaller capacity drives. <\/li>
The DD 6900<\/strong> has been updated to support a lower capacity start point<\/strong> \u2013 24 TB. (The previous entry point was 48 TB.) What’s more, you can do capacity increases in 12 TB increments on the system. This will be a real boon for businesses who know they’ll go beyond the maximum capacity of the DD3300 (32TB), but want to increase capacity in smaller units than a whole 60 TB disk pack.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n